Just more than two months from the expected release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new ozone rule, a regulation that could be the most expensive in U.S. history, the NAM is turning up the volume on lawmakers inside and outside the Beltway.

With the current highway bill set to expire on July 31, the House approved, by a vote of 312–119, another short-term stopgap: the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015 (H.R. 3038), introduced by Reps. Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Paul Ryan (R-WI).

Manufacturers’ relentless pressure on the House and Senate to pass Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) finally paid off on June 24 when the Senate convincingly cleared TPA by a vote of 60–38. The bill now goes to President Obama for his signature.

The NAM’s ozone advocacy campaign continues to produce results. Big-city mayors and other local officials in states like Virginia, Missouri, Michigan, Colorado, Indiana and North Carolina as well as governors across the country are pushing back against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to lower its ground-level ozone standard later this year.